Fertilizer-dropper



D. B. T. WALTON. Fertilizer Dropper;

(No Model.)

No. 229,504. Patented June 29,1880.

MQM%C7%ENTOR & ATTORNEY WITNESSES N PETERS PRO ER; WASHINGTON n C UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL B. T. WALTON, OF MILTON, KENTUCKY.

FERTlLlZER-DROPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,504, dated June 29,1880. Application filed May 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL B. T. WALTON, of Milton, in the county ofTrimble and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Fertilizer-Droppers and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a front view of myimproved fertilizerdropper, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof.

This invention has relation to improvements in hand fertilizer-droppersand it consists in a certain novel combination of a receptacle for thefertilizer, a plunger reciprocating through it, and provided with anumber of pockets, and with a scattering-shoe at its lower end, andmeans whereby the reciprocation of the plunger is regulated as tolength, so as to regulate the quantity of fertilizer dropped, as Will behereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates an oblong tapering boxor receptacle, provided at its lower end with a projecting metalshodleg, a, and a removable sliding lid or top, I).

0 indicates a reciprocating plunger extending snugly through guide-holesc in the bottom of box A, and in the fixed portion of its top, andprovided at its lower end outside of the box with an angular inclinedshoe, d, projecting out therefrom under the bottom of the box, and atits upper end with a manipulatinghandle, d. The plunger is rectangularin form, and is provided in its side above the shoe with the gecessedpockets 0 e c, separated fronr each other by the-wallsf, which may beequal in thickness to that of the receptacle-bottom f. By reciprocatingthe plunger the pockets are wholly drawn inside of the box and receive acharge of its contents, and wholly projected therefrom, when the chargesdrop out 5 of the pockets upon the shoe d and are spread over thesurface of the hill; but the throw of the plunger may be regulated so asto project one or two only of the pockets by means of a removable pin,p, extending through perforations 11 in the plunger, above the top ofthe box. These perforations are at a distance apart equal to thedistances between the partitions f of the pockets. When the pin is inthe second from the lowest perforation, 'i, the lowest pocket only canbe projected; when in the one next above the two lowest are projected,and so on; and when the said pin isinserted in the lowest of theseperforations all of the pockets are within the receptacle, and theplunger cannot be reoiprocated at all.

Thus it will be seen that by a very simple mechanism the quantity offertilizer dropped can be regulated at pleasure.

The pockets may be of the same or of different capacities.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the receptacle A, having leg at, of theendwise-movable plunger (J, having the inclined angular spreader d, thepockets 6 e 0 above said spreader, the perforations i above the top ofthe receptacle, and the removable pin 19, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above 1 have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL B. T. WALTON.

Witnesses:

Z. H. TROUT,

J. A. NETHERLAND.

